Wed, 24 Dec 2003
Incidentally ...
If you were to ask me "what are you doing for Christmas?"
I would have to give my usual answer: "I'm working, of course".
Christmas bugs me. Not the religious side of it, although that
isn't my cup of tea (I
suppose anyone who believes in that particular religion is
perfectly entitled to go to church, but do you have to
play insanely irritating religious music everywhere
for a month in advance?) ... but the whole
secular-consumerist package with added overtones of
seasonal excess sticks in my craw. The assumption that everybody is
on vacation gets right up my nose, too. I am not on
vacation: I am determined, come hell or high water, to get
the final chunk of "Accelerando" finished tomorrow -- at least
in first draft. (And at 12,000 words I am
very near the end indeed.) I'm not going to down tools
for a week off from the climax of my
masterwork just because the collective wisdom of marketing
managers past insists that I need to eat and drink to surfeit
then sleep off the hangover for the greater glory of the
retail industry's profits!
So here's a seasonal bah! humbug! to you all.
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Happy Newtonmass
Tomorrow is the birthday of our favourite eccentric
mathematician, Sir Isaac Newton. Shame it keeps getting
confused with all those Mithraist solstice celebrations, but
what the hell.
In line with the seasonal spirit, Feorag ran up this solstice
greeting card for you all to imagine kissing under the
mistletoe:
[ Discuss The horror! The horror! ]
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